On 6/7/07, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>The thing about this way of thinking that makes my palms sweat is suddently makes Waddington's concept of Genetic Assimilation totally transparent. Before the heat shock procedure, there was isoethic variation in wing-formation genes; in the context of heat shock, this variation became alloethic, and could be selected. ANYWAY. Dont read thompson, read the damn passage. NIck
Or - as Rutherford & Lindquist (1998) suggest - the Hsp90 acts as a buffer on the flies accumulated mutations. So how would we go about distinguishing which of these is the the best description? Robert
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